Thursday, September 5, 2024

School

school
a cigarette bookmark
marking my place 
in some used Tolkien tome
lit up by a campfire
reading it again
under patio lanterns

school
flipping the cassette tape over
reading Salinger, Hemingway,
Kerouac
Guns and Roses 
low in the background

school
filling moleskin
after moleskin
with poems, sketches,
lists of backyard creatures

school
the one or two...(maybe a few)
beautiful authentic teachers

school
from dropout, to teacher,
to old tired monk